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I could have wept that we had no lead, us first to the oasis from which
rifles. Steady inagazirf4- fire from the band had come.
"Lead us not into temptation," said
Buddy. "He'd shore lead us where hp
wanted us.",
• Speaking to the man in his own
tongue, when he had recovered from
Buddy's handling of .hira, I asked him
what he was prepared to do to save
his life. . . . Could, he lead us south
parallel with the caravan route, fron
one oasis or water -hole to another, if
we agreed to set him free as soon as
we were in the Kano territory?
He replied that he would willingly
lead us to Hell and che.ei.fully abidt,
there himself, so long as he got t s
there too. He was undbubteelly" a
1 brave man. •
q told him that in that case :we
should take his camel and weapone
(unfortunately for us he had no rifle).
and leave him where he was, to die of
thirst.
"El IVletub Mektub" (What is writ-
ten is written), he replied, with' a
shrug, and that was all we could get
out of hirn.
In the end we took"hirn with us,
bound, on his camel, which was tied
to Buddy's and left him at the first
water -hole to which we came. This
we found by following the track made
by his friends as they had come
northward,
;
From here we rode on with filled
water -skins and half the food supply
of the Arab whom we had abandoned.
Digby's death proved to be the first
tragic catastrophe 'of a series of dis-
asters that now overtook us. •
First we encountered a terrible
sand storm that nearly killed us and
quite obliterated all tracks.
Then we missed the caravan route
when we reluctantly decided to re -
tern to it, either crossing it in ignor-
ance,ewhere the ground was too rocky
for there to be anyfootprints, cirs else
riding over the road itself at a spot.
where all traces of it had been wiPed,
out, or buried, by the sand storm.
Next, nearly dead with thirst, we
reached a water hole, and found it
dried up!
Here our starving camels ate some
poisonous shrub Or other, speedily
sickened, and within thirty-six hours
were all dead;
We thus found ourselves stranded
in the desert, not knowing whether
the. caravan route was to the east or
to the west of us, without rifles; witb-
out food, without camels,, and with
one goat -skin containing about a pint
of water.' • '
This we decided not to drink until
we must literally drink or die, though
it seerned that we must surely do
that in any case.
F;or a day we struggled, on, incred-
ibly, without water, arid at the end
of the day wondered whether we were
a day's march from the caravan road
on which were oaseS, wells, water -
holes, and villages.
Once we found it (if ever), we
would risk the French patrols until
we could again get camele. On the
caravan route, death ;was probable,
here in the desert, on foot, it was
certain. • o ...., - • . f •
Night found, as unable to ''peak,
our lips black and cracked in great
fissures, our tongues swollen horribly,
our throats closed, an& our mouths
dry. (It isan incredibly horrible thing
to have. one's mouth literally and
really dry, like hard leather.)
I pointed at the precious water -
skin and raised my eyebrows inter-
rogatively.
Hank shook hishead and pointed at
the setting sun and then at the zenith,
We must drink to -morrow when we
should, if possible, be in worse ease
than now. .
We reeled on through the night, for
our lives depended on reaching the
"roado"
Towards morning, I 'could go no
further and sank down without mean-
ing to do so. I tried to rise and failed.
Seeing that I could do no more, the
other two lay down beside me, and
we fell asleep.
The sun awoke me to see Buddy,
with a fate like death, staring at a
scrap of paper torn from a. pocket.-
boOk. ,
He passed it to me, • On it was
scrawled:
"Pard,
Drink tip the water slow and push
on etilek, Good old Buddy, we bin
gobd pard,s.
Hank"
Hank was gone, . 6
Buddy untied the iteek of the goat-
skin and filled his mouth with water.
He held, the water in his mouth or
a minute and then swallowed it slow-
ly,
"Tekt a motthful like that and then
ewallee," he croaked hoarsely.
"We gotta do what lIatik ses," he
three marksmen like ourselves, would
have brought the yelling fiends crash-
ing to earth in such numberas might
have saved us and provided us with
much that we sorely needed.
The feeling, of utter impotence was
horrible, and like the impotence of
nightmare. ..To be butchered like
sheep without striking a blow
Could Digby possibly eseape? . . Or
would they see his tracks and ,follow
him after slaughtering us? . Therti
was an excellent chance that they
would pass straight on without cross
ing his trail. . . . Would they swerve
from our apparently levelled rifles?
No. On they came. . . . Digby might
be well away by now. . . o
And then from sonfewhere, there
rang out load, clear and (to -these
Arabs) terrible, a bugle -call that
portentous bugle -call, menacing and
fateful, that had been almost the last
thing so many desert tribesmen.' had
heard, the bugle -c11 that announced
the closing of the trap, and preluded
the hail of bullets against which no
Arab charge could prevail.
Tii effect was instant and magical.,
The band swerved to their right,
wheeled, and fled---fied to avoid what
they thought a terrible trap; so neat-
ly baited and into 'which they had so
nearly fallen.,
As the bugle -call died away, Hank
roared orders In French at thetop
of his enormous voice, and awayto
the left a man was apparently signal
ling beck with excited energy, to the
French forces behind him, "enemy in
sight?'
Evidently the panic-stricken mob of
raiders thought that the danger was
behind the spot on which they had
first seen Hank, for they fled in a
direction to the right of the rocks.bc-
hind which Digby had blown his
bugle. .
Suddenly my heart leapt into my
throat, as one of the robbers, perhaps
their leader or a candidate for leader-
ship, seeerved to the left from the
ruck of the fleeing band and, either
in a spirit of savage vengeance, or
the desire, not uncommon with these
people, for single combat if the pres-
ence of Many onlookers, rode at the
man who had exposed himself to sig-
nal back to the French force of which
he was evidently the.scout.
"Quick!" I shouted. "He'll get him,"
and I found myself yelling Digby's
name,
We scrambled on to our camels,
Hank bawling commands in French,
and Buddy yelling devilish war -
whoops.
Digby stooped and then poised him-
self in the attitude of a javelin -throw-
er. As the Arab raised his great
sword, Digby's arm shot forward and
the Arab reeled, receiving the stpne
full eri his face, and jerking the
camel's head round ahe did so. Dig-
by sprang at the man's leg and pulled
him down, the two falling together,
• They rose simultaneously, the
Arab's sword went up, Digby's fist
shot out, and we heard the smack as
the man reeled backwards and fell,
his sword dropping from his hand.
Digby seized it and stood over the
half stunned robber, who was twitch -
it -1g and clawing at the sand. . .
• And then we heard another sound,
A rifle was fired, and Digby swayed
and fell.
An Arab had wheeled from the ittl
of the fleeing band, fired this shot at
thirty yards' range and fled again, we
three on our galloping camels not
a hundred yards from him.
Digby was dead before I got to
him, shot through the back of the
head with an expanding bailet.
We tied the Arab's feet, and I blew
hugle-talls to the best of my abilieye
1 am going to ,say nothing at all
about my feelings.
Digby was dead. Michael was dead,
I felt that the essential me was dead
too.
I lived on like an eutorneton, and—
like a creature sentenced to death—I
waited for the blow to fall, the mo -
merit of collapse to eoree.
We buried Digby there, although
we expected the return of the Arabs
at any moment.
"He shore gave 'his life for corn,"
said Hank, chewing his lips,
"'Greater, love hath no inan,'
was able to rely,
Buddy said ;milting, 'but Buddy
wept, He then untied, the comeletelY
recovered Arab, a huge, powerful
young fellow, twite'bis size, and with-
out weapons on either side, fought
him and beat him insensible.
Discussing the question of this rob-
ber's future, I suggested we should
bind his hands, put him on his camel
and make Win reit guide—bidding him
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added,. as 1. shock mg bead, 1 could
not drink the water.
"We gotta hike," wheezed Btaltly
We don' wenta make 'what he done
all for nix, All no good, like. We
won't' come back an' drink it .., Yew
ain't goin" to waste his life, pard? ,
done it fer you. . ..."
1 filled my mouth and swallowed—
but I could not swallow the lump in
my throat.
We staggered on through that day
and the next, moistening our mouths
at intervals, and just. before sunset,
on ,the second day, saw a mirage of
palm trees, a village, a little white
mosque, and—the mirage was real.
We stayed at this village for months
scouring the desert for Hank, work-
ing as cultivators, water -carriers,
watchmen, ea:nehmen and at any other
job that offered, and we were never
both asleep at thmame time.
When French patrols visited the
place, we hid, or fled into the desert,
with the entire sympathy of the vil-
lagers. We could have joined more
than one south -bound caravan, but I
place, not urge Buddy to leave the
He had such faith in the indestruc-
tibility of Hank, that he hoped against
hope, until thope deferred made his
heart sick.
At first it was:
'He'll come mushin' in here to-mor-
rer, a throwin' his feet like the Big
Buck Hobo, rollin' his tail like a high -
fed hoss, an' grinnin' fit ter bust. . ."
• Then it Was:
• "Nobody couldn't kill Hank. . . . .
He's what you call iadestructible....
Why, back in Colorado, he shore
chased a man • over the Panamint
Mountains an' right across Death
Valley once, an' inter the Funeral
Motintains Vother sides, A hoss-rust-
ler, heewas, and when ole Hank got
him, he was stone dead with heat an'
thirst, an' Hank turned right round
an' hiked back and come Out alive!"
_And at last, when a caravan came
from the north actually going south
•to Zinder (the military headquarters
of the Territoire Militairt)eind com-
parative civilization, he proposed that
we should join it as camelmen and
guards. ; ''• • ' •
• "YOU
can't stop here fer keeps,
pard," he said. "I reckon I bineselfish.
But I couldn't leave old Hank while
there wasea chance . . .
But for Michael's letter. (and my
onging to. see Isobel), I would have
urged •Buddy to Stay, for that was
What he -really wanted to do.
• Nothing 'email destroy his faith in
his friend' i superiority to the desert
and to death. ' We joined the caravan
as fighting- men, one dumb and later
(as we neared Zinder) we left it
though we had little feae of getting
into trouble theie Still, it was just
poSsitle that some non-com. of the
big garrison there might know and
recognize us, and possible that a wel-
equipped desert -party of goumiers
might have come along the caravan
road from Zinderneuf.
. Our adventures between Zinder and
the British border at Barbera, where
we first saw Haussas in the uniform
of the West African Field Force, were
numerous, and our hardships great;
but Fate seemed to have done its
worst --and now that I had lost Digby
and Buddy had lost Hank, and neither
of us cared very much what happened,
our luck changed and all went fairly
well.
And one day we rode, on miserable
donkeys, into the great city of Kano,
and I revealed Myself to, an astound-
ed Englishman as'a compatriot.
He was, kindness itself, and put me
in communication With a friend, or
rather a friend Of Atint Patricia's a
Mr. Lawrence of the Nigerian Civil
Service. This gentleman sent me
money and'an invitation to came and
stay with him at his headquarters
and to bring Buddy with Inc.
And when I told Buddy that on the
morrow lie, was actually going to ride
in a train once 'more—I found that
he was not.
He had only come to .1. -Fars to see
me safe, and, having clone so, he was
going straight back to look for Hank!
"Nothing would shake his determin
ation, and it was waste of words to
try. Nor was it pleasant to strive td
persuade hitn that his friend was dead.
"Nope. ; . Hank g,!Ve his life fer
us. . ." '
All I could do was to ,see him fit-
ted out with everything procurable in
Itano—a flee 'camel, a spare one for
food, ii4ter, ammunition, and a small
tent, and a Hatissa ex -soldier aa'serv-
ant and guide, recommended by the
Kano Englishman, an official named
liordaunt.
The latter made it clear to the
Haussa that he was to go north with
tins American "explorer," obey him
in all things, reepive half his pay he -
fore starting and the other half, with
a bonus depending in value to his
merit, when he xetterned to Kano with
his master, or honorably discharged
Morclatint was good enough to a‘c-
eept my word that if he would be my
banker in this matter, 1 would adjust
things as sooti as 1 saw Mr. Law
-
tenet, who was ae old friend of his.
•! • •• 11. • " • •.• •
I hattel parting with the staunch,
brave, great-hearted little Buddy, and
I felt that he would'never return to
Kano unless it Was with I-Iatdc, and
I bad no hope whatever of his doing
that, .
I wondered, if I should, ever have
had the cold iron courage vol-
untarily back into that Hell, eso,
caping it be, a miracle, o. ...,:b a
ghost of a chance of finding ,...eited.
I took, the train at Kano to some
place of which I have forgotten the
name, and Lawrence met me on the
platform. I remembered his feee is
soon as I saw it, as that of the quiet,
rather dour and repellent man who
had been to Brandon Abbas two or
three times when we were there.
He tame nearer to showing excite-
ment, while he listened to my story,
than 1 thought was his wont. When
I had finished he said:
"1 should like to, know when fic-
tion was much stranger than this
piece of truth! . . . And you still clo
not know the rights of this 'Blue
Water' mystery?"
"No," I said. "I only know thatany
brother Michael never stole anything
in his life."
"Quite so," he replied. "Of course
And now I have something to
tell you. Your Major de Beaujolais
was sent down to Zinder and from
there he went home on leave via
Keno—and on Kano railway station
platform I niet him, and he told me
the whole story of Zinderneuf Fort
from his side of the business, and
about finding your brother's 'confes-
sion.' I went on to Brandon Abbas
and told Lady Brandon what he told
me—and it really did not seem to in-
terest her enormouslyr'
It was my turn to feel excited now.
It was incredible to sit there in a
hammock -chair under the African
stars, outside this men'si tents, a
whiskey -and -soda in my hand and a
cheroot in my mouth, and hear him
tell how he he'd taken our Zinderneuf
story ik) Brandon Abbas!
I think I was soon past wonder and
all power to feel astonishment.
What did strike me and what did
give me endless food for speculation,
from then until I saw her, was his
account of how Aunt Patricia had re-
'teived his incredible news, Apparently
she did not seem even to want to gee
the wretched jewel back., Her atti-
tude had puzzled Lawrence, and it,
puzzled me as he described it. . . .
When Lawrence, had finished his
tale he gave me much Brandon Abbas
news. ,
Sir IleOr 13randon was dead. He
had died miserably, alone in ICashinir,
of cholefa—his servants and coolies
having fled as soon as the disease wes
recognized for what it was.
The Chaplin had died of what was
apparently a paralytic stroke. Claudia
had married one of the richest men
in England, nearly 'old enough to be
her grandfather.
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